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Times Union, September 23, 2011

Ah, but what better timing for yet another trumped-up drama than when President Barack Obama has a serious jobs bill on the table? Why risk letting the President take credit for tackling unemployment when Congress can create a distraction?

Lie. Um, no he doesn't, he gave a speech about raising taxes. In fact, there was such not a "jobs bill on the table", that a GOP Congressman finally got disgusted and submitted his own bill with the name that Obama said he was going to use to put a "jobs bill on the table". And I'm pretty sure Obama's been "taking credit for tackling unemployment" for about 3 years now. And we're still over 9%.

The Senate earlier passed a bill that provided $6.9 billion for disaster assistance, with no offsets. That's the way Congress has long handled disaster aid -- helping victims of storms, floods and other calamities first and leaving the bean counting for later.

Yeah, and somehow we've got a $14 trillion national debt. Hmmm...could there be a connection?

But now, conservatives seem to see every need, no matter how dire, as a chance to further their ideological goals. One week, the stability of the most powerful nation in the world comes down to Planned Parenthood or public broadcasting; another, it hinges on fuel-efficient cars.

Funny, I seem to recall the Democrats willing to shut down the government last time to preserve abortion funding, as if the need was just a chance to further their ideological goals. And this time? Apparently keeping the government running hinges on loans to "green" car companies making luxury boutique "green" cars that cost $95,000 and $109,000. And aren't we in this mess because Democrats STILL haven't done a budget for the past 3 years?

They came out not only looking disdainful of disaster victims but embarrassed by their more extreme members.

Whoops, there's that lie again about fiscal conservatives being "extreme", I mean, it's not like they're Klansmen or socialists like the Democrats have sported recently and still sport.

Ding and ding.